During the World Series last month, Chevrolet aired a new commercial that might have felt familiar to many of you. Featuring old photographs overlaid on their modern day locations, the concept is identical to the images found on the website Dear Photograph, which we featured back in June.
Here's an amazingly cute idea for baby portraits: dress them up as adults while they're sleeping. Photographer Handri Karya and ad agency Grey Group made these photographs as part of an ad campaign for Indonesian mattress company Comforta.
Instead of using a traditional guestbook at their wedding, Jess and Sloane asked …
Lomo shooter wn7ant came up with a …
Here’s really random/strange/stupid idea inspired by a comment left yesterday, but have you heard of anyone “printing” …
When a fake camera technology is unveiled, it’s normally called a “concept”. When it’s published on April 1st, however, …
Not sure what to do with your vintage camera collection that’s sitting around gathering dust? Try displaying them on …
Here’s a fun idea for displaying your Polaroid photographs and decorating your wall: arrange the prints in the shape …
Shooting photos or video remotely may get a whole lot easier if a startup company named …
Why stick with a boring old Facebook picture when you can use the new photo strip as part of a larger, more creative portrait? That's exactly what Alexandre Oudin did with his.
How do you take a picture of something above the surface of the water and below at the same …
If you’re looking for creative portrait ideas, here’s a fun one to try: focus on your subject through the …
Sarah Ann created this beautiful full deck of 52 playing cards using Instax Mini instant film prints. Each card is a unique, and is a photograph of the card it represents.
“Oops”, created by Chris Beckman, is a 10 minute art video composed entirely …
When the leaves on trees are just starting to change color in the Autumn, try collecting them and arranging …
Photographer Chris McCaw was making long exposures of the night sky during a camping trip when he forgot to cap his camera lens before going to sleep. When he woke up, he discovered that the sun had burned a hole through his negative. After processing the film, he found that it had solarized, or reversed in tone. What started as an accident McCaw now does intentionally for his "Sunburn" series of photographs.
Using homemade large format cameras, McCaw exposes silver gelatin paper for extended periods of time, burning through the paper and inverting the image.
Next time you shoot a fireworks display, try combining the individual photos you capture into a collage of fireworks explosions afterward. Jesse Garcia created the above image with 50 different photographs.
Here's a creative idea that we love - cut out giant letters, gather up some friends, and spell out words with shadows! Justin Swindle, a student at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, created the above image by cutting the sides off the biggest cardboard moving box he could get his hands on. He then traded the letters freehand and cut them out using a razor.
Holga D is a concept camera by India-based industrial designer Saikat Biswas that brings the plastic, medium-format Holga camera into the digital age.
The cheap toy camera design retains the optical jankiness that lures hipsters to this type of camera (i.e. vignetting, blurring, and light leaks), but a DSLR-caliber sensor inside ensures that the anomalies are optical rather than digital.
What if you could have a rubber stamp that had a built in camera, allowing it to instantly change the stamp design to "print" a photograph? Would it be a stamp camera or a camera stamp? Either way, we think it's a nifty idea!
What if you could keep your camera charged all day while shooting outdoors using the power of the sun? …
Here’s an amazingly awesome idea for business cards if you’re a photographer or photo enthusiast. Brooklyn-based photographer and designer …
After shooting the engagement session of Tori and Austin, wedding photographer …
Two weeks ago we shared a futuristic concept Sony DSLR designed by Tecnofotografia, and now they've done it again, with a concept design for a compact Samsung camera.
Forget complicated kite photography kits that actually require skill. UK-based industrial designer Matthew …
Richard Renaldi has an interesting approach to street photography: he asks complete strangers to touch one another. The resulting interactions …
The Zero Angle Digital Camera is a conceptual design by Sun ho Sin and Jeong eun Park that protects …
Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse is a historical consultant in Amsterdam who loves making photographs in …
As online stock photography services and libraries have expanded in recent years, stock photography books have become more and more obsolete.
Advertising and communications corp JWT recently came up with an idea to breath new life into these dying books by transforming them into tools to help teach disadvantaged children to read.
Here’s a neat idea I came across yesterday: tossing a coin to explore …
Here's an idea for those of you who are looking for photography clients of any kind: Offer portraits and other kinds of photographs at your local farmers market for a nickel.
In this post I’ll briefly explain how to take photographs like this one. Just like my previous post on …
This is another post geared towards ideas and experimentation, rather than practicality and general photography. Here are two (kind …
Here’s a quick idea for you to try if you’re looking for some photo inspiration (after all, we have …
One of the things that never ceases to catch my eye is when people are framed in interesting ways within …
On the same day I was experimenting with the light painting I described in a post …